I couldn’t understand why mummy and daddy were yelling at each other. I couldn’t understand why daddy left one night. I couldn’t understand why we weren’t a family anymore. But I knew it had something to do with an evil thing called love.

My parents were in love once. They got a divorce. Love destroyed them and it destroyed my family. I swore I wouldn’t let that happen. Until I met him, then I realized you can’t control it. If it wants you in its claws, you can’t fight it; it will drag you to hell and back.

No body knew of her condition, that she made sure of. We all thought she would be around for ever. I thought she would be around for ever. If anyone were to survive the war it would have been her. For years I tormented her, I never got to tell her how I really felt. I never got to tell her that I was sorry.